Sending form data to an Email
In this article, we are going to learn how to collect the form data and send in the mail using PHP.
Gathering form data and deliver to email inbox is a very convenient way and PHP makes this process more dynamic as using this we can handle hundreds of responses per day. This process is based on the client server architecture. The HTML form is on the client side, when user hits the submit button, the data will be sent to the url of the page specified on form action.
Here, we are going to create two pages - form.php and sendmail.php. The file "form.php" will collect the data you are going to send and the file "sendmail.php" will send the messages.
form.php
<html>
<head>
<title>Sending form data to an Email</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper" style="width: 35%; margin: 0 auto;">
<form name="mailinfo" method="post" action="sendmail.php" class="form-signin">
<input type="text" name="to" size="40" class="form-control" placeholder="To:" />
<br/>
<input type="text" name="from" size="40" class="form-control" placeholder="From:" />
<br/>
<input type="text" name="subject" size="40" class="form-control" placeholder="Subject:" />
<br/>
<textarea cols="50" rows="5" name="message" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter your message">
</textarea>
<br/><br/>
<input class="btn btn-small btn-primary" type="Submit" value="Send"/>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
sendmail.php
<html>
<head>
<title>Sending form data to an Email</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$to = $_POST['to'];
$from = $_POST['from'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$headers = 'From: '.$from.'\r\n';
$mailsent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if($mailsent) {
echo 'Mail has been sent<br/><br/>';
echo '<b>To: </b>'.$to.'<br/>';
echo '<b>From: </b>'.$from.'<br/>';
echo '<b>Subject: </b>'.$subject.'<br/>';
echo '<b>Message: </b>'.$message.'<br/>';
} else {
echo 'Error in the message.';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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